The UCSB Library is an internationally acclaimed institution and a partner in the teaching and research mission of the University. As a moving force integral to the success of the University, the Library:

• fosters an open collegial environment, leading in knowledge exchange, creativity, and diversity within its librarians, staff, collections, and all activities
• provides quality, highly effective, user-centered services which seek to delight our users
• builds, develops and organizes a premier collection of information resources in any format, serving the needs of an internationally acclaimed University
• initiates innovative leadership in the provision of access and delivery of information in any format
• leads in the development, use and integration of state-of-the-art information technologies
• establishes a collaborative instructional environment within the University community in which librarians, faculty and students work together to encourage the flow of creativity and learning
• provides well-designed, barrier-free facilities with sufficient space for collections, instruction, access and use of information resources
• collaborates with other UCSB campus units, and UC and California libraries and research institutions, in the creation, collection, access, organization, and delivery of information

fosters an open collegial environment, leading in knowledge exchange, creativity, and diversity within its professional and support staff, collections, and all activities

• Goal 1: to encourage and fairly reward creativity and collaboration
• Goal 2:to promote an organizational climate that is open to, appreciates, stimulates, and rewards innovation in service
• Goal 3:to promote efficient teamwork by creating and sustaining high morale through open and honest communication throughout our organization
• Goal 4: to increase and retain an ethnically diverse work group of the highest quality
• Goal 5:to create a superb library for our users through increased staffing levels
• Goal 6:to build a continuing education program to develop and invigorate staff within a constantly changing information environment

provides quality, highly effective, user-centered services which seek to delight our users

• Goal 1:to involve staff in decision-making, problem-solving and planning in order to provide responsive, quality user-centered services
• Goal 2:to develop unified, creative public service policies more responsive to the needs of users
• Goal 3:to improve and expand access and delivery of information resources in any format, including print, electronic, digital, multimedia, and cartographic
• Goal 4: to actively promote effective use of all types of the library's information resources and services
• Goal 5: to build a continuing education program to develop and invigorate staff within a constantly changing information environment

builds, develops and organizes a premier collection of information resources in any format, serving the needs of an internationally acclaimed University

• Goal 1:to build a collection of information in any format, including print, multimedia, cartographic, digital, and network-available, that supports both cutting-edge research and undergraduate education
• Goal 2: to provide expertise in organizing and describing information in all formats to enable logical search and retrieval of relevant resources
• Goal 3: to provide a user-friendly gateway that enables seamless searching of multiple systems to facilitate identification, retrieval, and production of information
• Goal 4: to obtain ample internal and external funding to build and sustain highest-level collections, systems, and facilities
• Goal 5: to work closely with faculty in developing support for collections in new and/or expanding subject areas

initiates innovative leadership in the provision of access and delivery of information in any format

• Goal 1: to expedite delivery of information resources located outside the library
• Goal 2: to provide convenient 24-hour access to an increased amount of information resources
• Goal 3:to create mechanisms that make difficult-to-use formats easily accessible

leads in the development, use and integration of state-of-the-art information technologies

• Goal 1:to encourage, contribute to, and advance the development of a unified information technology plan for the campus
• Goal 2: to establish long-term and dedicated funding for acquiring both current and future information technologies
• Goal 3:to create new applications for improved teaching and research by working closely with faculty and students
• Goal 4:to participate in campus planning for new technological developments
• Goal 5:to work with faculty in the adoption and use of technological advances

establishes a collaborative instructional environment within the University community in which librarians, faculty and students work together to encourage the flow of creativity and learning

• Goal 1:to build a multimedia Scholar's Center for teaching, learning and research, which enables users to find, access, manipulate and create information, and provides common areas for instruction and discussion [see attachment]
• Goal 2: to develop a new model of partnership with faculty, integrating instruction for information literacy and lifelong learning
• Goal 3: to play an integral role in campus instructional planning
• Goal 4:to guarantee that the Library's information literacy program is an integral component of the campus lifelong learning mission
• Goal 5: to provide innovative and creative instruction, embracing the integration of new technologies and traditional resources
• Goal 6:to market the Library's instruction program, clearly defining the advantages of working with librarians in instructional programs

provides well-designed, barrier-free facilities with sufficient space for collections, instruction, access, and use of information resources

• Goal 1: to build a multimedia Scholar's Center for teaching, learning and research, which enables users to find, access, manipulate and create information, and provides common areas for instruction and discussion [see attachment]
• Goal 2: to successfully articulate facility needs to the campus through participation in campus planning
• Goal 3: to support adaptive technology facilities

collaborates with other UCSB campus units, and UC and California libraries and research institutions, in the creation, collection, access, organization, and delivery of information

• Goal 1: to provide access to all local campus electronic information collections and resources relevant to research needs through the library gateway (e.g., departmental working papers, datasets, instructional media, slide libraries, etc.)
• Goal 2: to encourage, contribute to, and advance the development of a unified information technology plan for the campus
• Goal 3:to share unique local electronic resources with other UC, regional, statewide and national library and research institutions through initiatives such as the California Digital Library (CDL)
• Goal 4: to contribute expertise to local, state, national, and international consortial efforts in advancing technologies involving standards, copyright, knowledge creation, digital collections, and information delivery
• Goal 5: to establish a unified system of standards and technologies to access information within the system through interfaces that promote the "One University, One Library" concept
• Goal 6:to maximize collection building and access capabilities through consortial agreements